Earth911 Podcast: EPAM Continuum’s Buck Sleeper on the Rise of Consumer Influence

Earth911 Podcast: EPAM Continuum’s Buck Sleeper on the Rise of Consumer Influence

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Earth911 talks with Buck Sleeper, director of innovation consulting at EPAM Continuum, an organization that makes a speciality of creating services. EPAM’s latest NXT 2021 Trends Report factors out a number of essential traits that may assist pivot the financial system towards better sustainability, together with a brand new hybrid of global and local economic activity fueled by digital communities and a brand new era of national and global government regulations that emphasize adaptation to local weather change. The agency works with firms in healthcare; monetary providers; client items together with meals packaging, make-up, and client expertise; and different industries. It additionally works on tasks to scale back poverty and enhance sanitation and entry to water world wide.

Buck Sleeper, director of innovation consulting at EPAM Continuum
Buck Sleeper, director of innovation consulting at EPAM Continuum, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

The survey additionally discovered that 79% of customers really feel that low- or zero-waste packaging is a precedence when making a purchase order. In truth, 20% of respondents mentioned they’d be prepared to eat the packaging that their meals is available in whereas one other 20% need to have the ability to repurpose packaging for different makes use of. Sleeper says EPAM purchasers are shifting their priorities towards attaining sustainability and, as a result of clients can specific their preferences via smartphones and the web, they’re now serving to form the merchandise they’ll purchase.

Take a couple of minutes to listen to what EPAM Continuum realized and the way you need to use your rising affect to form a sustainable financial system.